Letters to the Editor: Friday, August 23, 2013

Friday

Aug 23, 2013 at 12:00 PM

Student thanks helpers for ‘Backpacks for Kids’ project ...

Student thanks helpers for ‘Backpacks for Kids’ project

To the editor,Alysha Ausmus, a senior at Onsted High School, is just completing a community service project. She sent out fliers to the Onsted community to collect backpacks and school supplies for 20 needy elementary students at Onsted Elementary. She called the project “Backpacks for Kids.”

The response she received was tremendous from the community. She was able to exceed her goal and has filled 30 backpacks with school supplies and donated them Thursday morning at Onsted Elementary along with additional school supplies donated by the community. Alysha felt she wanted to give back to the community before she finished high school. She would like to thank everyone for their generosity and support for this project.

Alan and Cathy AusmusOnsted

Audience member’s remarks interrupted meeting

To the editor,On Monday, Aug. 19, I along with another resident from Woodstock Township attended the fire board meeting at the Addison Fire Department meeting room. This board is made up with a representative from each of the townships covered by the Addison EMS and Fire Department.

Sitting two tables behind me were the Woodstock Township treasurer and a person I did not know at the time time.

I taped the entire meeting. Upon arriving home, I replayed my tapes of the meeting. Throughout the meeting’s proceedings, I heard this person constantly talking to “our” treasurer in an undertone, asking question after question about what the fire board was discussing. What disrespect and bad manners!

I found out after the meeting that this person was the Rollin Township treasurer who embarrassed the whole area with the now “infamous lawsuit” against the fire board!

I will attend the next fire board meeting with a dedicated microphone so I am able to record everything she says, even those comments when she is recognized by the chairman (Roberts Rules of Order).